A: Tobacco or vaping
Groundhog Day: second parliamentary enquiry led by vaping enablers sees them rolled to minority report status . WordPress 18 Dec, 2020
English smoking control experts put colonial upstarts in their place on vaping impact. WordPress 11 Dec 2020
Who are the 100 highest ranked researchers in the world in tobacco control for the years 1996-2017? WordPress 21 Nov, 2020
Asthmatics can’t buy flavoured puffer drugs, so why should e-cigarette choices be like a candy store? WordPress 5 Nov, 2020
Would you take a drug that failed with 90% of users? New Cochrane data on vaping “success”. WordPress 15 Oct,2020.
Are there really 520,000 vapers in Australia? What’s the biggest number you can find? WordPress 21 Sep, 2020
Vaping has two big rugs pulled from beneath it. WordPress 4 Sep 2020.
Vaping advocates say the darndest things 2: Tobacco control advocates help Big Tobacco. WordPress 12 Aug, 2020
Vaping advocates say the darndest things. 1: The Cancer Council Australia takes huge donations from cigarette retailers. WordPress 30 Jul, 202
Why vapable nicotine juice via prescription is sensible public health policy. WordPress 2 Jul, 2020
Australia to allow prescribed access to e-cigarette nicotine. WordPress 22 Jun, 2020.
Big Tobacco’s enduring interest in children: insights from its internal documents. WordPress 29 May, 2020
Aussie vaping advocates’ latest lobbying fiasco. WordPress Mar 16, 2020
Want to work for a pariah industry? Big tobacco fears it is unable to attract top staff. WordPress Feb 16, 2020
The dirty dozen: 12 myths about vaping WordPress 26 Sep, 2019
Effectiveness of e-cigarettes: dismal or disrupting? WordPress 13 Sep, 2019
We (also) denying targeting kids: your free guide to playing Big Tobacco/Vape bingo. Word Press 28 Aug, 2019
Regrets … I’ve had a few. Paul Hogan and his Winfield role. WordPress 14 Aug, 2019
Banning smoking in wide open public spaces goes beyond the evidence and is unethical. WordPress 4 Jul, 2019
The Canadian canary in the teenage vaping coalmine. WordPress 28 Jun 2019
Highlights and lowlights of World No Tobacco Day, Australia 2019. WordPress 31 May, 2019
Global, regional and national agencies concerned about e-cigarette hype: statements you are unlikely to hear from vaping advocates. WordPress 20 May 2019
So, apparently it’s now unethical to be sceptical about e-cigarette hype. WordPress 4 Apr, 2019
At Philip Morris International, it’s business. As usual. WordPress 26, Mar 2019.
“As safe as drinking coffee”: research spoiling the e-cigarette rehabilitation of nicotine party. WordPress 21 Mar, 2019.
What is it about far right conservatives and vaping activists in Australia. WordPress 2 Mar, 2019
10 questions for Philp Morris on their “transformation”. WordPress 21 Feb, 2019
“If we stopped selling cigarettes tomorrow, someone else would take our place.” WordPress 12 Feb, 2019.
Cigarettes are sold everywhere and are unregulated. So, hey, let’s do that with e-cigarettes! WordPress 6 Feb, 2019
What are the limitations of the randomised controlled trial of ecigs v NRT just published in NEJM? WordPress 31 Jan, 2019.
How good are e-cigarettes at getting smokers to quit? WordPress 9 Jan, 2019.
Man the lifeboats! Australian smoking has stopped falling! Or has it … WordPress 20 Dec 2018
Are scratch ‘n sniff gangrene warnings next for cigarette packs? WordPress 6 Nov, 2018 [167 accesses]
Are tobacco companies really trying to get out of tobacco? WordPress 22 Oct, 2018
Are e-cigarettes really the seat belts and condoms of tobacco-caused disease prevention? WordPress 7 Aug, 2018
B: Renewable energy, climate change
Wind turbine syndrome: the non-disease that only speaks English. WordPress 29 Oct, 2019
Every school principal should write a letter like this. WordPress 18 Sep, 2019
The non-disease now on life-support: wind farm complaints in Australia are way down. WordPress 12 Apr, 2019
Is the Darling river fish clean-up just porcine aviation? WordPress 29 Jan, 2019.
25 of 12,000 Geological Society fellows challenge climate change science consensus. WordPress 5 Sept, 2018
C: COVID19
What’s to be done about Van Morrison and Eric Clapton’s anti-lockdown antics? WordPress 19 Jan, 2021.
Imagine a surgeon refusing to wear a mask. Gladys’ refusal to mandate public masks is this writ large WordPress 21 Dec, 2020
What Dr Fauci didn’t write about COVID19, but well could have. WordPress 14 Sep 2020
The ethics of shaming prominent COVID-19 mask opponents. WordPress 26 Jul 2020.
When COVID-19 pandemic gets touch the conference scammers get going. WordPress 25 April, 2020
Indelibly sear this into the national public and political DNA: evidence-based prevention saves many lives so let’s honour our COVID-19 heroes. WordPress Apr 22, 2020
How can we erode self-exempting beliefs about COVID-19 contagion and isolation that might subvert flattening the curve. WordPress Apr 19, 2020.
Home isolation: except for food, medicine and exercise. So why are so many other stores open? WordPress Apr 7, 2020
If self-isolating COVID-19 cases won’t isolate, should they be monitored with GPS? WordPress Mar 10, 2020
D: Public health (misc)
Ten common reasons why research journal editors reject papers. WordPress 14 Jan, 2021
Prime minister: let’s have a national architecture competition to design Australian fireproof housing. WordPress Jan 5, 2020
Scott Morrison at the beach. WordPress Dec 28, 2019
Junk research journals and conference emails: the gifts that keep giving. WordPress Nov 26, 2019
Abortion in NSW in 1971: a personal account. WordPress 20 Aug, 2019
When should researchers engage with industry and when should they not? WordPress 31 Jul 2019
All a conspiracy: anti-mobile phone fruitcake argues that all university research toes government cover-up line on 5G dangers. WordPress 13 Mar, 2019
NSW elections: the three political parties intent on shredding Australia’s gun laws. WordPress 6 Mar, 2019.
Whack-a-mole: knocking the ‘mobile phones cause brain cancer’ claim on the head. WordPress 23 Jan, 2019
Is it unethical to use fear in public health campaigns? WordPress 11 Aug 2018
E: Other topics
Workplaces remain a very common place we meet our partners. So when is workplace sex unethical? WordPress 12 Nov, 2020
House concerts: how to help your favourite musicians during COVID19 WordPress 29 Sep, 2020
What a party we had last night, what a party we had … WordPress 25 Aug, 2020
Loathe Sydney’s Crown casino tower? What if it was owned by a renewable energy company? WordPress 3 Aug, 2010
Trump’s profligate and unpunished lies threaten to cause an epidemic of ethical collapse. WordPress Jan 17, 2020
Je twitte, donc je suis (I tweet therefore I am): my 10 years Twitter. WordPress Nov 8, 2019
Royalties or readers? Why I make all my books open access. WordPress 12 Dec 2018
The Rolling Stones at the Enmore Theatre, 18 Feb 2003. WordPress 9 Nov, 2018
An unforgettable dinner in Istanbul. WordPress 20 Sep, 2018
